Current Group Members
Dr. Yongmei Wang
Professor
Dr. Wang started as a faculty member at the University of Memphis in 2003. She has since been tenured and promoted to full professor. Before coming to Memphis, she worked at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as Assistant and later Associate Professor for seven years. You can read more about her here.
Dr. Jesse Ziebarth
Senior Research Associate
Jesse obtained his Ph.D in our group in 2009. While he was a graduate student, he worked on simulation for polymer separation and charaterization, and he initiated the project for polymer based gene delivery. Jesse then spent several years working in the bioinformatics group at UTHSC. He came back to work on the gene delivery project and also spend part of his time working as a consultant for bioinformatics and biostatistics needs.
Hossain Shadman
PhD candidate
Hossain joined our group in Spring 2020. His primary research project is on protamine/DNA condensation.
Brinton Eldridge
PhD Student
Brinton joined our group in Summer 2022. However, he has been working with our group since Fall 2019 through connections at his now Alma Mater Freed-Hardeman University with previous group members Dr. Jim Barr and Dr. Elise Chaffin. Brinton is currently working in coordination with Dr. Nascimento on his software project: PlasMol.
Urvashi Kalia
PhD Student
Urvashi is a doctorate student who joined Dr. Wang’s group in October 2024. She is currently working on a project investigating integrin expression in breast cancer using GTEx and TCGA_BRCA data.
Dillon Baker
Undergraduate Student
Dillon is a senior at the University of Memphis double majoring in Chemistry and Mathematics who joined our group in Spring 2024. His primary research thus far has been contributing to LCCC project: PolyCrit. Dillon is currently working to apply machine learning to PolyCrit.
